San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-20
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs

hAlLWAn eApIces fOpDciy 40 u hho ~ y
is approaching the perfection Of one Of
the exact sciences in America.
NASHVILLE grows In manufacturing
Importance and her old time journal, the
| American, becomes republican,; a pOliti-
cal straw.
The labor element led by Henry
| George is preparing for the fall campaign
and the democracy have but one eOlu-
ton of the matter-it Is to help James
| G.. Blaine In 1888.
GLADSTONE tslegrsphs that he has mo
intention of visiting America; the report
is entirely baseless." All tho same,
America would welcome him as q
mother would her pet boy after the war.
BEN BUTTERwoRTH has been spreading
his Oleomargerine all over the Canadi-
ans, on his free trade with that country
project. Reciprocity In full with Cana-
da will not be slipped into 80 greasily as
Butterworth imsgines.
The teapot will not be entirely use
| less this year. China will put her first
crop upon the market and withhold the
rest. The celestial kingdom thus falls
| into line in the "early-teA" craze.
LANDsDowNE charges O'Brien with be-
offers no testimony-O'Brien charges
Landsdowne with being q monster Of
perfidy and cruelty, and proves 1t.
MEXICO under Diaz as president will
live a republic beyond the power OF any
European monarchy to overthrow. Prin-
ciples of popular government take deep
root in the kindly soil Of this great
west.
kAa hn
spirit of JEFF Davis dream ever since his
daughter, Minnie, went north and found
| out the ways Of republican progress.
JEFF shows symptoms of dying strong
| unionist.
The United States commercial agency
| at London, Ontario, is authority for the
| statement that interstate commerce law
is having a very disssterous effect upon
the trade of the Dominion. Score one
for Interstate.
If Attorney General Garland wants
| Woods brOgans he should hurry up his
cOnfabs with Danl. The democracy
want man on that bench mighty bad /,
and every democratic judge on the
bench has hopes. Texas is going in
strong for the palstsble plum.
JAY GOULD has shown his hand. No
about 1t. St. Louis holds the cards and
its a royal flush that Gould has dealt
her. The big bridge city becomes his
| railroad center and the hub Of his opera
| tiOns.
The steam bicycle Is an American in
ventiOn. Had il been possible to run the
wheel with chin power, this would not
have been, but the machine required too
much leg-wOrk and it made Uncle Sans
| boys tired. Jaw-power would have
found them at home.
TIE experiment OF establishing a
monarchy in Mexico about a quarter OF
| a century since did not pan out encOur-
| agingly enough to warrant second at
tempt. Let Don Carlos remember
Macmillan and possess the wisdom Of
discretion.
DAME nature pOurs out of her mysteri-
| Gus reservoirs in the little town OF Findlay
| Ohio, a volume OF natural gas equal to
the combustion of 2,5O0 tons of coal
| every twenty four hours. Ohio will be
| on hand ready for the band when the
1888 procession comes.
The democracy have found their op-
portunity since Hays was offered the
presidency Of the Ohio university, and
| the old chestnuts about pumpkins"
| and "hen-fruit" are doing duty for
| wit. This is a bonanza for the DEM
OCracy who have been lonesome ever
| since Thurman went into the turkey
| trade.
THERE never was finer opportunity
for Canadian Jack to show the length of
his ears than during this O'Brien visit.
1t goes without saying that he has i'm
proved his opportunities to the fullest
possible extent. There are orangemen
| in Canada who swear that they " can
smell papish a mile" and some OF these
| fellows seem TO have camped on
| O'Brien's trail.
The statistics of Neutrality-suspicious.
nationality, time Of residence In Amer
lea, parentage, and continuation and
origin OF disease-prove conclusively
that this country is made the depot for
European paupers. Ii is high time to
put up the emigration bars In this cOun-
try and put q faithful custodian on
guard. Uncle Sam can breed his own
| idiots.
1T Is q significant fact that Boulanger
| is the only one OF the late French min
istry that appears to have the power OF
| continuance in office. Has Boulanger
struck the keynote of popular feeling in
ment and policy as war minister Ger
many will not relish the Interpretation
Of this fact.
The spectacle OF Dan Manning, ex-
secretary of Cleveland's Treasury, going
into bullion gambling as a business, for
which business he resigned his treasury
portfolio, is one Of the signs of the times
which portends the downfall Of such an
administration. What q comment on
national finance as Economically ad-
ministered.
IT Is reserved for May, 1888, to wit
ness the first act of vandalism in the old
Alamo. The traditions of the place
should have made IL sacred. Texas has
enshrined her honor, and her state pride,
and her primitive glory In those old
walls, and in all that they contain. 1t is
humiliating to think that even such
places are not free from dissertation.
The Austin Statesman reaches out
Its fist to shake hands with Houston
across the intervening miles with the
remark: 1--WE are with you, now let
! Austin and Houston grow together"
| There will have to be some pretty tall
! spreading cut. Of municipal bOunda-
ries before the growing together mater
ialiZes. What sort of a suburb would
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